It’s very weird to be back, after 3 months abroad. Everything is basically were we left it; it almost feels like we didn’t go any where. Like it was a dream. A fever dream, since I (of course) got quite sick as we were leaving.<\/p>\n
I kept a journal of our trip and I’m planning on launching a secondary blog under my Michaela Mowbray pen name for our travel adventures; I’ll post a link to those when they’re up.<\/p>\n
Now that I’ve crossed that particular item off my bucket list (going to school in Japan, if only for two months) I feel more focused on writing than I have in months. Last autumn and winter–I was too distracted, trying to deal with design clients and trip planning and everything and my writing suffered. This spring I have two design clients left and then that’s it; I’m done with graphic design. Maybe forever. Who knows.<\/p>\n
What I do know is that while I was in Japan I introduced myself as a writer (“\u4f5c\u5bb6\u3067\u3059!”) and no one<\/em> thrust their finger out at me and howled “LIAAAAR”* the way I feared. Calling myself a writer and having people treat the declaration seriously felt amazing; I can’t quite believe I went so long with the ‘graphic designer’ label stitched into my identity, even after I stopped working as such. From now on, it’s writer or nothing.<\/p>\n I’m putting together an Action Plan for the next six months or so. First off the block is Embers\/Ignition; I’m hoping to get it finished by the end of May. We shall see.<\/p>\n Anyway. Home now. Dedicated. Sick as dog, but dedicated.<\/p>\n It’s very weird to be back, after 3 months abroad. Everything is basically were we left it; it almost feels like we didn’t go any where…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[106,95,63],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-japan","tag-michaela-mowbray","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n*mind you, there were several awkward conversations from people who wanted to read my books… cue nervous laughter<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"